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Royal Adelaide Hospital
North Terrace,
Adelaide, S.A. 5000

Telephone: +61 8 8222 5516
Facsimile: +61 8 8222 5896
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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Woodville Road,
Woodville, S.A. 5011

Telephone: +61 8 8222 8492
Facsimile: +61 8 8222 6028
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Mr Guy Rees
MBBS FRCS FRACS
Senior Lecturer

Contact details
Discipline of Surgery, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Lyell McEwin Hospital
Ph: +61 8 8222 7158
Fax: +61 8222 7419
Email: mail@entsurgeons.com.au

Biography
• Consultant Otolaryngologist and Head and Neck Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Lyell McEwin Hospital
• Director of Surgical Education and Training ORL-HNS, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Lyell McEwin Hospitals
• Board member Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society
• Chairman of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Clinic
• Board member Royal College of Surgeons South Australian branch
• Board member Clinical Examinations, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Clinical interests
• Management of cancer of the head and neck
• Investigation and treatment of voice disorders
• Investigation and treatment of swallowing disorders
• Paediatric otolaryngology
• Rhinologic surgery
• Training and education in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Research interests
• Gastrolaryngeal acid reflux disease
• Epidemiology of head and neck cancer in South Australia
• Effect of comorbidity on outcome of head and neck cancer (in conjunction with Head & Neck Oncology Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital)
• Screening for metastatic disease in head and neck cancer (in conjunction with the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital)

Recent publications
• Carney AS, Timms MS, Marnane CN, Krishnan S, Rees G, Mirza S. Radiofrequency coablation for the resection of head and neck malignancies. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2008; 138(1): 81-5
• Paleri V, Kumar Subramaniam S, Oozeer N, Rees G, Krishnan S. Dissection of the submucosal recess (sublevel IIb) in squamous cell cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract: prospective study and systematic review of the literature. Head Neck 2008; 30(2): 194-200
• Hamer PW, Thompson SK, Rees GL, Devitt PG, Jamieson GG. Bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy after Ivor-Lewis oesophagectomy. ANZ J Surg (accepted Sept 2008).

Conferences
• ANZ Head and Neck Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Fremantle, August 2009. Swallowing related quality of life in patients with oropharyngeal cancer.
• ANZ Head and Neck Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Fremantle, August 2009. Long term survival following detection of circulating tumour cells in head and neck squamous carcinoma.
• ANZ Head and Neck Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Fremantle, August 2009. Treatment, quality of life and survival in a cohort of 169 tonsil cancers - Royal Adelaide Hospital data.
• ANZ Head and Neck Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Fremantle, August 2009. Quality of life following conservation surgery for early laryngeal cancer - Royal Adelaide Hospital data.
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Combined Annual Scientific Congress, Hong Kong, May 2008. Robotics in head and neck cancer.
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Combined Annual Scientific Congress, Hong Kong, May 2008. Salvage surgery for head and neck cancer.

Students supervised
Supervise multiple students for research in head and neck cancer investigation, management and outcomes at any given time.
Currently supervising a PhD candidate which is looking to develop a quality of life instrument for use in Aboriginal Head and Neck Cancer patients.
Closely involved with the planning and ongoing research of Master of Surgery and PhD candidates in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.